Chapter 72 — Desperate Straits
劍問蒼天 · Page 11 of 11
The woman in black, watching her, seemed to feel a pang of tenderness. She stroked her hair lightly and comforted her in a low voice, "It's all right. Don't worry. Didn't your father say so too—that he won't stand idly by?"
Bili nodded silently. Suddenly she raised her head, seized the woman's hand, and said urgently, "Aunt You, I know you stopped taking action long ago—but for my sake, please help him too!"
The woman in black was silent for a moment. Her gaze drifted gently away, toward the mouth of the alley.
Bili called again, "Aunt You!"
The woman in black seemed to sigh softly. "Very well. If your father decides to save him, then I'll help you this once."
Joy spread across Bili's face.
The woman in black smiled—though the smile was hidden behind her black veil, where no one could see it, just as no one could see the ripples that spread, wave upon wave, deep in her heart.
On that pitch-black, forbidding night, when that youth flung himself at the ferocious beast with no thought for life or death, she too, there in the darkness, had felt her heart stir!
Dimly she recalled a figure in white, white as snow, from many years before.
Even the look upon their faces seemed somehow alike.